The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for thousands of square miles atop a high, dry Andean plateau in Bolivia.

While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in brine found deep underground.

Salar de Uyuni Four foreign companies are interested in mining lithium in Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest known deposit of that metal, with the aim of producing automobile batteries, a ...

YLB and Uranium One Group signed last year the first contract to produce 14,000 tons of lithium carbonate per year in the Salar de Uyuni, Potosí, using EDL technology, with an investment of more ...

Public exploration company American Salars Lithium has signed a letter of intent agreement with an arm’s-length vendor to acquire up to 100% of the Salar De Pocitos Project in Salta Province ...

SQM’s low-cost lithium deposit in the Salar de Atacama boasts the highest concentration of lithium globally and benefits from high evaporation rates in the Chilean desert. As electric vehicle ...

within the prolific Lithium Triangle. The closing of this transaction will culminate in American Salars having the second largest property asset on the Salar de Pocitos. The Company’s existing ...